Slashdot Poll
Slashdot Poll: "Based on your comment about why the US is the worst, you have never been to a cinema in Chennai, India. To be fair to the India culture, I enjoyed what would have been considered rude elsewhere and would never consider it the worst, only different.

I went to two Hindi and one Tamil movie in Chennai a few months ago with an Indian friend of mine. Two of the three theaters were huge, holding well over 500 people. Cell phones go off constantly, people are text messaging all over the place so the distraction of cell phone displays winking on and off is constant, there was a background noise as people talked, I saw laser pointers at least two or three times, and it was not unusual to hear someone yell out when something happened on the screen. And when a very pretty girl came on screen the men in the audience would go nuts whistling and yelling.

It was freakin' GREAT and I can't wait to go back (my friend is getting married in a year.)

These were people who knew how to enjoy a movie. An Indian citizen might thing all of the quiet, polite people in those quiet, polite theaters are elitists or boring and need to learn how to become part of the film, instead of going into a slack-jawed catatonic state and just being entertained.

What makes anyone think that they are the only one that knows how to enjoy a movie. Seems like a rather elitist atitude to me. If one is behaving as one of the minority in a movie theater, then it would appear that the minority is in the wrong and doesn't know what they are talking about. I would agree completly that if the majority of theater patrons are quiet, then one should also remain quiet. If the patrons are noisy and animated, join in and have a little fun and stop being such a tight-*ss"
- posted by Gp @ 3:04 PM